A medical worker takes a swab sample to test for Coviid-19. — Bernama file photo
KUCHING (Sept 29): A total of 99.56 per cent of the reported 2,967 cases in Sarawak today consisted of Categories 1 and 2 cases involving asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients, said State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC).
“Out of that figure, 736 cases (24.81 per cent) are in Category 1 (asymptomatic) and 2,218 (74.76 per cent) in Category 2 (mildly symptomatic).
“There were six cases in Category 3 (patients with pneumonia but not requiring oxygen), two cases in Category 4 (patients with pneumonia requiring oxygen) and five cases in Category 5 (patients with pneumonia requiring ventilator support), which accounted for 0.44 per cent of today’s cases,” said SDMC in its daily Covid-19 update.
The state’s cumulative cases now stands at 207,137.
Meanwhile, Kuching continued to top the list of new Covid-19 cases in the state with 759 cases, followed by Miri (307), Sibu (295), Serian (198), Bau (198), Betong (166), Bintulu (131) and Sri Aman (127).
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